The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

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Title: The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.
Author: Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675.
Publication: London :: Printed by W. R. for Robert Scot, Thomas Basset, Richard Chiswell,; 1684.
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VERS. XXIV.

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She hid her self five months.

SHE hid her self five Months, saying, Thus hath the Lord dealt with me, in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.

She was big with child, it is plain, because God had looked on her and taken away her reproach among men. She hid her self, because the Lord had dealt so with her, till he had taken away her reproach: giving her so remarkable a Son, one who was to be so strict a Nazarite, and so famous a Prophet. Lest therefore she should any way defile her self by going up and down, and thereby contract any uncleanness upon the Naza∣rite in her womb, she withdraws and sequesters her self, from all common conversation. Consult Judg. XIII. 4.

There were several amongst the Jews, that were wont to take upon them the Sect of the Nazarites by their own voluntary vow. [Three hundred at once in the days of Janneus the King, came together to Simeon ben Shetah. a 1.1] But there were but two only set apart by divine appointment, Sampson and the Baptist. Whom the same divine ap∣pointment designing to preserve untoucht from all kind of pollution even in their Mo∣thers Wombs, directed that the Mothers themselves should keep themselves as distant as might be from all manner of defilement whatsoever. Elizabeth obeys, and for the whole time wherein she bore the Child within her, she hid her self, for her more effectual a∣voiding all kind of uncleannesses; although it is true we have the mention but of five months, by reason of the Story of the sixth month which was to be immediately related, Vers. 26.

There is mention of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 a big bellyed Woman hiding her self for ano∣ther reason b 1.2.

Notes

a 1.1

Hierosol. Be∣rac. fol. 11. 2. & Nazir. fol. 53. 3.

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b 1.2

Jevamoth, fol. 42. 1.

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